1. North Korea? That's who invades us?

6. I believe i read somewhere

that the original invaders were the Chinese...but the movie producers, being the big capitalists that they are, didn't want to lose the very profitable Chinese market by having their movie banned over there. So, they changed the enemy to North Korea...supposedly after production. All the Chinese flags were digitally replaced with NK ones and any mention of China was re-dubbed with NK. Talk about a shitty script that can the main antagonists can be digitally replaced without an entire re-shoot.

12. The movie is actually pretty good, if you know it's history

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) announced their intentions to make a remake of Red Dawn in May 2008 and subsequently hired Bradley and Ellsworth. The principal characters were cast the following year and the film went into production in September 2009 in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Originally scheduled to be released on November 24, 2010, the film was shelved due to MGM's financial troubles. While in post-production, the invading army was changed from Chinese to North Korean in order to maintain access to China's box office. FilmDistrict bought the U.S. distribution rights from MGM in September 2011 and set a new release date.

5. I've been seeing the previews for a couple of months.

The original has a great first ten minutes, but after that was just hilariously bad.

I have a feeling this one will be the same. From what I gather from the previews, the set-up of how we get invaded is improbable in the extreme. Maybe technological not possible.

One huge problem I have with a lot of movies is that some important aspect that the plot revolves around just can't happen. Now, I'm not talking something in a science fiction film like time travel or faster than light drive, or a fantasy in which a person gets to see what the world would have been like had he not been born. No, those are the kinds of single things we all willingly suspend our disbelief about to get to the rest of the movie. They're okay.

But something like having a very dangerous criminal on a commercial airline flight, just so he can than take it over. People like that aren't allowed to fly commercially. Things like, one and only one person designed all the critical systems of an airplane so she can wind up wandering around the amazingly spacious behind-the-scenes electronics to thwart the bad guys. Those are just two that come to mind, but they happen so often that a lot of my friends don't like going to a movie with me because I'll carp endlessly about those things that to me bring a movie to a screeching halt.

And my problem isn't just that the plot flaws are in my opinion insurmountable, and yet the movie was made anyway. That's bad enough. But then, a lot of people will take what's presented on absolute faith, that what's shown is what can happen, or what does happen in real life. The show Myth Busters should be more widely watched.

11. North Korea as part of a coalition

Which includes a restored Russia. We can'offend Chinese but Russians are fair game. PS there is a Powers Booth lookalike character and my audience was actually laughing at the final sad dramatic ending

14. It's been "in the can" for 3 years now

Delayed for one year because of the China -> North Korea alteration, but still the studio didn't know what to do with it. The fact that it was filmed with a then- relatively unknown Chris Hemsworth, who is now a big star, has something to do with the release.

15. As if the original wasn't bad enough

17. You forgot the rest of the movie:

"Teenagers seek to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers," but then they run out of weed and realize that for the past two hours they have been listening to John McCain on Fox News.

22. ...or Gaza and the West Bank

20. Buy the Video Game, too!

Homefront was released a year ago and was written by the writer of the original Red Dawn. It also features the North Koreans invading and a resistance cell being formed and joined by the main character.